This is one thing new for me. You see I am normally reserving flights to hitch a cruise. Sure I’ve booked flights for land holidays. Back to visit family, and flights with charters to Mexico. But I’ve never booked flights to a overseas country where quite a lot of issues have been new to me.

While all these flights with flight occasions over 16 hours seem lengthy, none of those would match up to the longest flight ever – Singapore Airlines’ Flight 21. The flight from Newark to Singapore was 18 hours and 30 minutes long, operated by an Airbus 340-500 plane. This flight was discontinued in October 2012. However, Singapore Airways plans to relaunch this route with its new Airbus A350-900 planes.

I have taken many transatlantic flights through the years, and I feel you’ve compiled a great checklist. I all the time take a e book with me, …

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